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Buffalo Sabres at Boston Bruins

Apr 13, 2021 · TD Garden

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 23
Boston Bruins 3 34

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:52 BUF Colin Miller (4) Dylan Cozens (4), Anders Bjork (4) 1 - 0
13:20 BOS David Krejci (3) Jeremy Lauzon (5), Craig Smith (15) 1 - 1
2nd Period
05:29 BOS Craig Smith (9) Unassisted 1 - 2
3rd Period
11:53 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (4) Henri Jokiharju (4), Jeff Skinner (4) 2 - 2
Shootout
BOS Charlie Coyle Shootout winner 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
14:32 BOS Nick Ritchie Boarding 2
16:51 BOS Jake DeBrusk Hooking 2
18:23 BOS Curtis Lazar High sticking 2
2nd Period
02:46 BUF Matt Irwin Fighting 5
02:46 BOS Nick Ritchie Fighting 5
09:14 BOS Kevan Miller Fighting 5
09:14 BUF Tage Thompson Fighting 5
16:29 BUF Matt Irwin Holding 2
Overtime
05:00 BUF Casey Mittelstadt Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 51 35 23 2 1.6 42.4
Boston Bruins 67 51 34 2 3.0 57.6

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdOTBoston Bruins aheadBuffalo Sabres ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Boston Bruins had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 1.6 expected, 2 scored · Boston Bruins: 3.0 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 1:52 of 1st, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 11:53 of 3rd, a 2% chanceBOS goal, 13:20 of 1st, a 12% chanceBOS goal, 5:29 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBOS 3.0BUF 1.6

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

Where the attempts came from

Buffalo Sabres
Boston Bruins

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Asplund · Tage Thompson · Casey Mittelstadt7:3945.546.00-0
Jeff Skinner · Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson6:1940.025.40-0
Anders Bjork · Dylan Cozens · Arttu Ruotsalainen5:1741.234.71-1
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Riley Sheahan4:0040.079.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Ristolainen · Jacob Bryson16:4940.059.50-0
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin15:4242.924.81-0
Matt Irwin · Colin Miller14:4348.526.81-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
6 Colin Miller D 1 0 1 0 0 3 4 18:33 0.04 17-19 0.30-0.88
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 0 1 1 0 2 6 23:24 0.06 12-19 0.33-1.03
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 19:26 0.05 13-17 0.33-1.00
24 Anders Bjork L 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 13:55 0.10 13-15 0.35-0.60
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 18:04 0.31 19-24 0.48-0.89
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 17:58 0.06 13-13 0.25-0.56
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 19:23 0.01 11-17 0.22-0.57
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 07:40 0.07 2-8 0.07-0.32
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 19:06 0.38 12-11 0.40-0.74
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 20:58 0.21 11-14 0.25-0.39
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:03 7-12 0.08-0.46
25 Arttu Ruotsalainen C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:52 0.06 10-24 0.24-1.38
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 0 7 0 5 16:06 0.02 18-20 0.29-1.00
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 7 25:13 10-21 0.42-0.57
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 13:48 0.12 8-8 0.26-0.29
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:38 0.02 8-9 0.28-0.61
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 20:19 0.03 14-18 0.45-0.42
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 19:34 0.06 12-16 0.28-0.54
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Dustin Tokarski OTL 31 29 2 60:06 2.78 +0.78
35 Linus Ullmark 3 3 0 04:54 0.27 +0.27

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Patrice Bergeron · Brad Marchand · David Pastrnak12:0382.683.90-0
Chris Wagner · Sean Kuraly · Curtis Lazar10:4762.573.80-1
David Krejci · Craig Smith · Taylor Hall10:2936.851.51-0
Charlie Coyle · Nick Ritchie · Jake DeBrusk7:5033.354.70-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeremy Lauzon · Charlie McAvoy17:1066.774.61-0
Kevan Miller · Mike Reilly16:0250.049.00-1
Jarred Tinordi · Connor Clifton11:4252.083.71-1

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
15 Craig Smith C 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 13:32 0.24 10-14 0.41-0.27
46 David Krejci C 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 18:25 0.33 13-16 0.69-0.38
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 22:17 0.05 24-11 1.47-0.44
3 Charlie Coyle C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:26 0.21 13-15 0.37-0.33
6 Mike Reilly D 0 0 0 -1 0 5 2 22:17 0.10 17-17 0.40-0.49
14 Chris Wagner R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 14:38 0.29 12-7 0.62-0.21
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 12:58 0.24 10-6 0.58-0.21
25 Jarred Tinordi D 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 16:15 0.10 16-14 0.58-0.13
27 Nick Ritchie L 0 0 0 0 7 0 3 10:25 0.01 9-12 0.48-0.19
37 Patrice Bergeron C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 17:32 0.08 20-5 0.71-0.14
52 Sean Kuraly C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 14:15 0.04 12-7 0.68-0.21
63 Brad Marchand L 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 18:47 0.37 20-9 0.81-0.41
71 Taylor Hall L 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 16:43 0.24 15-13 0.54-0.19
73 Charlie McAvoy D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 25:04 0.11 26-14 1.36-0.47
74 Jake DeBrusk L 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 14:29 0.23 13-15 0.45-0.26
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:09 0.02 16-13 0.72-0.21
86 Kevan Miller D 0 0 0 -1 5 1 2 20:58 0.04 15-15 0.37-0.38
88 David Pastrnak R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 18:56 0.34 24-7 1.02-0.38
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Jeremy Swayman W 23 21 2 64:54 1.61 -0.39